radia season 40 – show #677 (radio x) – RESOUNDING BANGALORE (RE) by GABI SCHAFFNER
– playing from march 19 to march 25, 2018 –

RESOUNDING BANGALORE (RE)by GABI SCHAFFNER

"Sounds in India are strangely alive! For me, they form autonomous entities: a bell resounding through layers of different memories, the swish of a broom dusting flights of cerebral chambers, a train travelling beyond the boundaries of one’s own biography. ‘Resounding Bangalore’ is a journey in itself and an invitation to cherish an indigenous sound world played back through the ears of a “stranger”…… with no constraints to timelines and topographies.

‘Resounding Bangalore’ was composed on the occasion of an epigynous radio art performance in India, when I was staying there within the frame of the Goethe Institute’s BangaloREsidency in collaboration with the arts and media collective maraa. This radia edit is a slightly extended version of it."

[Gabi Schaffner)

RE = RADIA EDIT = This piece is a special pre-edit for radia by raw audio.

GABI SCHAFFNER
is an interdisciplinary sound artist, curator, writer and photographer based in Berlin.
Travelling forms a vital part of her work – as a source for sound and language recordings but also as “a rite of passage” enabling the artist to explore alternative narrative structures. Her works in the field of radio art have been broadcast internationally, including commissions for Deutschlandradio, SWR, ABC Australia and many more. In 2012 and 2014, she staged in collaboration with Pit Schultz/reboot.fm a garden radio station in Berlin and in Giessen, Hessia, both featuring international as well as local artists and gardeners. Since 2011 she has been creating several shows for radia.fm. .

What is binaural sound ? It’s a recording technique that try to reproduce the natural human hearing, created by our head and ears. This three dimensional acoustic experience is not a new idea, it’s been experimented since the 60’s. But it seems there is a new boom for binaural recordings…

With some musicians and dancers, we decided to experiment this binaural stuff, recording sounds simply using 2 little DPA microphones stuck in our ears in order to create new sensations to our listeners. This project is called RADIOPHONIUM. And here are some « work in progress » pieces extract from our experimental sessions.

2/ Dispositif BACH : Prélude
D’après le prélude de la 1ere suite pour violoncelle seul de Johann Sebastian Bach.
2 speakers and one cellist playing the Prelude with different speed and one dancer carrying the microphones in her ears. Can you hear the movement ?

Speech
noun
1. The expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.
‘he was born deaf and without the power of speech’
1.1. A person’s style of speaking.
‘she wouldn’t accept his correction of her speech’
2. A formal address or discourse delivered to an audience.
‘he gave a speech about the company’
2.1. A sequence of lines written for one character in a play.
‘Antony’s speech over Caesar’s body’

Origin
Old English sprǣc, sprēc, later spēc, of West Germanic origin: related to Dutch spraak, German Sprache, also to speak.

STRANGENESS: a documentary composition exploring everyday emergences of weirdness across both human and non-human lifeworlds – a combination of eld recordings, interviews and other sonic obscurities that voice perspectives on the absurdity of living.

The broadcast is a contribution from Erik Lintunen – a young sound artist currently studying and working in London – on behalf of Resonance FM.

Departing from the reading and performing experience of PO-EX, an ongoing archive of portuguese experimental poetry, this piece explores the mouth and tongue organs as sound tool to engage in an unstable balance between pre-verbal forms and collapsing discursive fragments which bring forward the interstices of language, all with a somehow black humour approach. Portuguese spoken only.

Nuno Marques Pinto is a multidisciplinary artist. He works on theatre, performance and painting, combining these tools to build a singular voice. His work shares a reflection on language and sound and aims to question or highlight the mecanisms of control in contemporany speech.

This piece is a sound meditation on impact of water; how sounds of water affect humans, and how human sound effect the aquatic ecosystem.

Using interviews, field recordings and archive footage (including from GM’s ‘Futurama’ exhibit of the New York World Fair of 1939), Bodies of Water looks at how we evolve and progress, and whether the tide of development we’ve been sold is actually taking us toward a destination we want to arrive at.

Produced and mixed by Laura Irving (Laurairving.co.uk). Mastered by Jean Paul DuBock

Lebanese artist Kinda Hassan deciphers the Marseille kaleidoscope through a sound installation titled “Ex Nihilo (nihil fit), nothing comes from nothing”, where she interrogates the different stories rendered invisible by the contemporary facade of the city.

In the sonic image she creates, Hassan presents the city and its port as a subject and its mirror, unveiling details of some origins, often assigned today to the margin, to oblivion. They are details that illustrate a quotidian life by the sea: hours spent waiting for boats, bodies carrying tons of goods, products animating the shelves of the city markets, trades born on the corpses of their antecedents. They are details evoking ruptures, silences and ends.

The work is an intimate encounter with a city brought back to its fundamental roots: Man and his experience with survival.